Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!utoday!sean
From: sean@utoday.UUCP (Sean Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Sounds trivial, but it's not (I don't think)
Message-ID: <1819@utoday.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 90 12:01:07 GMT
References: <1815@utoday.UUCP> <1990Sep29.024105.29939@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: sean@utoday.UUCP (Sean Fulton)
Organization: UNIX Today!, Manhasset, NY
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In article <1990Sep29.024105.29939@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>
>However... You can get a version of kermit for almost everything these
>days although it is sometimes difficult to convince the administrator on
>the other end that it is worth the trouble to locate and install it. Having
>kermit at both ends makes this sort of thing trivial (as long as at least
>one end handles scripts).
>
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, the system on the other end
is Atex, a dying mainframe publishing system whose installers seem to
think it a priviledge for us to be able to dialup at all. The
~$command idea, however, works! Thanks again.
 

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